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beauty


Definition: Meaning of, beauty in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈbjuːti /

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beauty beauties
  1. appearance [uncountable] a quality that people, places, or things have that makes them very attractive to look at
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  2. woman [countable] a woman who is very beautiful
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  3. poem/music/emotion etc [uncountable] a quality that something such as a poem, song, emotion etc has, which gives you pleasure or joy
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  4. advantage the beauty of something a particularly good quality that makes something especially suitable or useful
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  5. [countable] spoken a very good, large etc example of something
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  6. beauty is in the eye of the beholder used to say that different people have different opinions about what is beautiful
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  7. beauty is only skin-deep used to say that how someone looks is not as important as a good character
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beauty used in phrases

  • Beauty and the Beast
    1. an old story about a beautiful young girl called Beauty, who is forced to live with a frightening creature called the Beast. The Beast loves her and she gradually begins to care about him too. He continually asks her to marry him, and when she finally agrees, he magically becomes the beautiful prince that he used to be.
  • Black Beauty
    1. the name of the horse that is the main character in the children's book Black Beauty (1877) by Anna Sewell
  • California beauty (noun)
    1. any of several handsome evergreen shrubs of California and northern Mexico having downy lobed leaves and showy yellow flowers
  • Camberwell beauty (noun)
    1. of temperate regions; having dark purple wings with yellow borders
  • Carolina spring beauty (noun)
    1. similar to Claytonia virginica but having usually pink flowers; eastern North America
  • Rome Beauty (noun)
    1. large red apple used primarily for baking
  • Sleeping Beauty
    1. the main character in a FAIRY TALE called Sleeping Beauty, who is a princess who lives in a castle. An evil FAIRY makes the princess and everyone else in the castle fall asleep for ever. After a hundred years, a prince finds Sleeping Beauty and kisses her, and then she and everyone else in the castle wakes up. There is a BALLET with music by Tchaikovsky based on this story.
    2. someone who seems to be sleeping peacefully
  • Virginia spring beauty (noun)
    1. small cormous perennial grown for its low rosette of succulent foliage and racemes of pink-tinged white flowers; eastern North America
  • beauty bush (noun)
    1. chinese deciduous shrub with yellow-throated pinkish flowers and bristly fruit; often cultivated as an ornamental
  • beauty consultant (noun)
    1. someone who gives you advice about your personal appearance
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glossolalia
Pronunciation: ˌɡlɒsəˈleɪlɪə
Parts of Speech: noun
especially that associated with a trance state or religious fervour repetitive nonmeaningful speech
Beauty and the Beast